[Cultural departments] don’t care about culture. Maybe they’re the furthest from the people who understand culture.
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The art always wins. Anything can happen to me, but the art will stay.
More Ai Weiwei Quotes
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[Cultural departments] don’t care about culture. Maybe they’re the furthest from the people who understand culture.
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The so-called culture nowadays is only a fake one with a superficial front. It is an empty lie.
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If artists cannot speak up for human dignity or rights, then who else will do it?
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The Internet is the best thing that ever happened to China. It turns us into individuals and also enables us to share our perceptions and feelings. It creates a culture of individualism and exchange even though the real society doesn’t promote it.
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It’s not really an ideology, but a method of control. But China’s problems are not just China’s problems – they’re human problems. Humanity has always worked better when you see it as one.
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I think you can give meaning to any condition; you can be poor or unsuccessful or be so-called successful. But I don’t think that it would give an individual human being a better condition.
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Stupidity can win for a moment, but it can never really succeed because the nature of humans is to seek freedom. Rulers can delay that freedom, but they cannot stop it.
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To express yourself needs a reason, but expressing yourself is the reason.
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I don’t think there is a distinct change, because in the West I’m not a person who can serve his purpose.
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I deal with students every day – from China, Germany, the United States, Hong Kong and Taiwan. And I’ve noticed that the Chinese students are the least trained in having a sense of aesthetics.
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I think Donald Trump should cool down a little bit. To pay more attention to the history. To really understand what U.S.’s value is about. I think, as a president, those things you always have to ask.
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The intention to separate art from politics is itself a very political intention.
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Nationality started as something natural, but we should not be restrained by the old politics that make up these clear lines. It should have its own way of evolving. In some places, it will evolve slower and in others, faster.
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You need a purpose to express yourself, but that expression is its own purpose.
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China restricts the society’s freedom of speech. The Communist Party imposes these limits because it lacks confidence towards the future and has no ideals.
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